Brad Caleb Lee is an international designer for theatre, as well as a director, producer, curator, exhibition designer, editor, and teacher championing true collaboration to create connective audience experiences. Collaborators include Kings Head Theatre, St. George’s Bristol, Elan Frontoio, Opera Sonic, Opera'r Ddraig, East Riding Theatre, Welsh National Opera, Prague Shakespeare Company, Theatre Tuscaloosa, Hell in a Handbag, Filament Theatre, Bros Do Prose, the Summer Theatre of New Canaan, and The Monomoy Theatre. He co-designed Make/Believe, the award-winning British Pavilion for The Prague Quadrennial 2015 and its residency at the Victoria & Albert Museum. His work was an included in World Stage Design 2017 in Taipei. For the Wales Millennium Centre he has designed BOCS, a custom theatre for digital experiences and curated/designed the exhibition YOUR VOICE, including 400 pieces of work made by people across Wales. He is the founding editor of ASCENDING, a digital magazine giving voice to the next generation of designers.

Ruth is a set and costume designer based in South Wales, with an MA in Theatre Design from Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Ruth has been designing for theatre, opera, dance and installation for over 10 years. Her favourite projects seek out unusual and outdoor spaces, embed the community, and celebrate green practice in their design and realisation.

Ruth is a strong advocate for working sustainably in the performance industry. In 2019 she took part in National Theatre Wales’ residency, Egin, which explored artistic responses to climate change; a theme she is developing in future projects. Ruth is a core member of the Ecostage team (ecostage.online), and of the Society of British Theatre Designers Sustainability Working Group, and was part of a team who recently developed a Carbon Literacy Training course tailored towards theatre designers. Alongside her design projects, Ruth is also co-Sustainability and Impacts Manager on GALWAD.

May is a London based production designer making short films and indie feature films that screen at festivals all over the world. May also designs stage performances for venues including The Park and The Pleasance and for art installations including exhibitions at The Barbican.

She has 10+ years experience in community engagement for underrepresented people in the industry through her work at leading film and arts charity, Signal Film and Media in Barrow-in-Furness, in her home county. May remains committed to encouraging new faces into the industry through mentoring (National Theatre, BFI Film Academy and Bafta Crew), and by taking part in events with the British Film Designers Guild and The Production Designer’s Collective.

May studied a BA Fine Art 2007 and then a masters in theatre design at Wimbledon College of Art 2016. May co-founded Micro Short Films, a covid lockdown project focused on super short, collective made drama/ experimental films, many of which enjoyed success in the film festival circuit.

Isabella is a designer for performance, specialising in new writing, opera and dance across fringe theatre and in the West End. She is a Jerwood Young Designer and was featured in the UK digital exhibit ‘Staging Places’ at the Prague Quadrennial and V&A.

Opera includes: The Ring Cycle (Regents Opera, Freemasons Hall), Liminal (Kings Head), The Travelling Companion (New Sussex Opera, Cadogan Hall/Saffron Hall), Madama Butterfly, Lansky, The Mob’s Money Man (Cadogan Gall), Die Walküre Grange Park Opera – as assistant costume supervisor), Orpheus & Eurydice (English Pocket Opera).

Theatre includes: Secret Cinema Presents: Dirty Dancing (as art director), The Oyster Problem, Cancelling Socrates, The Dog Walker (Jermyn Street Theatre), The Dwarfs (White Bear), The Lesson, Gatsby (Southwark Playhouse), Dual (Vaults Festival), Piloten, Polarörnen, Midnattståget till Marrakech (Teateri, Jönköping), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (St Paul’s Church), When the Birds Come, This is Living (Edinburgh Fringe), Hell Yes I’m Tough Enough (Park 90).

Louise Worrall is a performance designer based in Leyton, East London. Through collaboration with a myriad of artists and communities, Louise intends to create work which is relevant, thought-provoking and exciting. She is particularly interested in inclusive work that is both accessible for diverse audiences and for theatre makers. Louise is excited by the prospect of enabling people who may not usually engage with performance projects and creating multi-sensory, memorable experiences that have a lasting legacy. Louise has a degree in Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art and a Masters in Performance Design from Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Credits include the following: Lead Designer for Abundance, an outdoor play space in Birmingham, Set & Costume Designer for Anansi's Big Big Adventure at Bristol Old Vic and Design Assistant for Coventry City of Culture's Opening Event.

Lara Booth is a costume and set designer with a passion for inventive storytelling. As a designer she aims to explore space and create environments and costumes that will serve the actors and the story, as well as bringing an immersive experience to the audience. Lara trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School graduating with Distinction in 2004. Lara has collaborated on devised pieces as well as text-based works and her creations range from small scale touring theatre to large scale opera productions. In recent years Lara has diversified into exhibition design and designing for film. Lara is a regular guest designer for Manchester Metropolitan University School of Theatre and is a Senior Lecturer in Costume Design and Illustration at The University of Huddersfield.

Caitlin Mawhinney is a set and costume designer, model-maker and installation artist from North Yorkshire. Her work has seen stages and unconventional spaces across the country, most notably with The National Trust, Hull Truck Theatre, Jermyn Street Theatre, Harrogate Theatre, Leeds Playhouse, Lawrence Batley Theatre and Mind The Gap Studios.

In 2022, Caitlin was Shortlisted for Best Designer at ‘The Stage Debut Awards’ for her designs of My Voice Was Heard But It Was Ignored and Teechers Leavers ’22. In the previous year she was awarded the Evening Standard x Tik Tok ‘Future Theatre Fund' in Visual Design. Caitlin is a Creative Associate at Jermyn Street Theatre and previously a Resident Designer at New Diorama Broadgate.

Caitlin graduated in Theatre Design from Nottingham Trent University in 2019, and previously studied at Leeds College of Art.

Megan Baker is the Programme Director for the BA (Hons) programme in Performance Costume at Edinburgh College of Art at the University of Edinburgh. A practitioner herself, she has designed and supervised costumes for over 25 years, including productions for London’s West End, the Theatre Royal Stratford East, The Globe Theatre and the Royal Lyceum Theatre. Her most recent costume design credits for stage are: ‘Without a Hitch’ for room 2 manoeuvre, Finland and UK tour, ‘The Iliad’ and ‘Union’ at the Royal Lyceum theatre, Edinburgh, ‘The Guid Sisters’, co-production National theatre of Scotland, Kings theatre Glasgow and Lyceum theatre, ‘Ana’ Scottish/Canadian co production with Stellar Quines and Imago theatre, L’espace Go, Montreal and Scottish national tour.

Becky has been designing for over 25 years, her work covers main house productions, large-scale touring, aerial and circus indoor and outdoor productions, multiple site-specific designs and large outdoor ceremonies, including the as Associate Designer for the Opening Ceremony and Designer for the Closing Ceremony for Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. She was awarded the Silver medal for Space Design forThe 306:Dawn for National Theatre Scotland at the World Stage Design exhibition in Taipei 2017. Her designs have been selected as part of the UK exhibition for The British Society of Theatre Designers at the Prague Quadrennial PQ19, PQ15, PQ11 and PQ07. She lectures part-time at Edinburgh College of Art within the Performance Costume Department.

Emma Renhard is a design lecturer for the BA (Hons) programme in Performance Costume at Edinburgh College of Art. Emma has worked extensively within theatre as a designer, supervisor, cutter and costume prop maker. Theatrical and film work includes designer, Tears of a Clown and The Cherry Orchard (2001) Harrogate Theatre, costume prop maker Mr A’s Amazing Play (2006), Stephen Joseph Theatre, designer and supervisor short film 'Wilfred' (2007) Duchy Parade Films and designer and supervisor for the indie film 'Polterheist' Tadah Media (2016). In 2019 Emma presented a short talk at the Prague Quadrennial on costume and sound and has recently exhibited costume design work at the De Mowbray Songbook exhibition (2021). Emma is a creative practitioner who thinks better with a pair of scissors or a glue gun in her hand.

Karen lives in Edinburgh Scotland and is a graduate of Edinburgh College of Art .Her work as a theatre designer has toured all over the UK and abroad from village halls to Sydney Opera House. She enjoys collaborating with other artists exploring live performance in its many forms. Her design experience includes devising and designing physical theatre, theatre for young audiences, touring and in-house productions as well as large scale site-specific and promenade performances. Recent designs include; MusterStation (Gridiron/Edinburgh International Festival 2022) Fieldsomething for the future now an outdoor dance performance by Curious seed (Edinburgh International Festival 2021 and São Paulo Brazil ). Lots Not Lots (Greg Sinclair) Rubble (Scottish opera) a new opera by Johnny McKnight and Gareth Williams for Scottish Opera Young Company , The Children (Dundee Rep). And if not Now ..When, a film installation by Philip Pinsky and Karen Lamond in the National Museum Edinburgh for COP 26. Christmas Dinner (Lyceum Edinburgh)